The 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto Earthquake A Photographic Atlas of Coseismic Surface Ruptures Related to the Aso Volcano, Japan /

• Main Author: Lin, Aiming (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Natural disasters.; Geology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Natural Hazards.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

This book shows the deformation characteristics of coseismic surface ruptures produced by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake and the relationship between the Aso volcano and active faults. In particular, the rupturing mechanisms and processes involved in the seismogenic faults related to the crustal struc...

Table of Contents:

• An overview of the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto Earthquake
• Tectonic setting
• Deformation features of coseismic surface rupture
• Structural features of coseismic surface rupture
• Trenching investigations on seismogenic faults
• Destruction of buildings and houses related to coseismic surface rupturing.